Texas Firefighting Team Puts Out Denver Blaze

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November 29, 1990

DENVER — Five experts in fireproof suits waded into a blaze feeding on as much as 2.3 million gallons of jet fuel and in half an hour snuffed a fire that had burned for 53 hours at Stapleton International Airport. ''It's just like the fire forgot what to do,'' said Dwight Williams, owner of Williams, Boots & Coots of Port Neches, Texas. He was one of the five men who extinguished the blaze. A broken valve on a 400,000-gallon tank was thought to have touched off the fire, which broke out Sunday and spread to a 400,000-gallon tank.